Re: New paper: Theropod forelimb evolution & Archie is not a "Rosetta stone"

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andreasj@gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Roger Close <roger.close@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Patristic" strikes me as a very poor term for something in
> > evolutionary biology. All the top hits I can find on Google are either
> > for this very paper, or for Christian/creationist sites.
> 
> Patristics is a long-established term for the study of the Church
> Fathers (early but post-Biblical Christian writers). Using the word
> for something in biology strikes me as simply perverse.

Many of the earliest naturalists were priests. 

Often they were men from well-to-do families who had a lot of spare time on 
their hands (perhaps 
having entered the priesthood for political reasons or as a way of avoiding 
hard work, rather than 
due to any specific 'calling'), but they were priests none-the-less.

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Dann Pigdon
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